[Official FAQ] Corrections and follow-up questions welcome.

Chroma is easy for starters; Qdrant is strong as a service with filters; Milvus Lite/smaller deployments fit other ops tastes. Data size, metadata filters, and ops comfort matter more than brand loyalty.

Usually more important than the brand:

• Chunking with light overlap; special handling for code/tables.
• Hybrid search (vectors + keyword) for rare proper nouns.
• Optional rerankers trade latency for precision.

Measure recall on your corpus. Chunking war stories welcome.